B-flies and Northbimbles

The great Up North

Chutes Croches

I want to believe

Merlin Falco columbarius stalking dragonflies

American Toad Anaxyrus americanus

Atlantis Fritillary Speyeria atlantis

Atlantis Fritillary Speyeria atlantis

Silver-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene

Silver-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene

White Admiral Limenitis arthemis

Mont-Tremblant, August 14 + 22, 2019
  Shot up north to Tremblant with the Scottsman on the 14th and 22nd. Still a bit buggy, but lovely sunny weather on both days, and all the sweet, delicious boreal air you could ever want to breathe. I’m looking at you, Korea.
  Bird activity was subdued, with most birds heard, rather than seen. On the 14th, low single-digit numbers of Red-eyed Vireo, Black-capped Chickadee, Winter Wren, Swainson’s Thrush, American Robin, Nashville Warbler, Black-throated Blue Warbler, and Ovenbird.

  Because it is still that slow time of year for birds, I focused my optics downward at les papillons, and found two fritillaries I’d never seen. Do they call those lifers too? Do they? I’m 90% confident in my butterfly IDs, but that shit is tricky.

  On the 22nd, to the soundtrack of Spring Peepers and American Red Squirrels, birds of note included a Common Loon, two Common Goldeneyes that initially had me confused as their bills looked quite heavy in the hazy distance, a ‘swamp Merlin,’ and low numbers of Red-eyed Vireo, Blue-headed Vireo, Cedar Waxwing, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, Song Sparrow, Swamp Sparrow, and Dark-eyed Junco.

  It’s late August? Like birds, the time she flies, innit.